I should say at the head that this post is not really about photography. But before I get a head of myself, it does head in a similar direction… Ok I’m done.

This is my contribution to The Head Project which, in case you didn’t know, is “a work of worldwide collaborative fiction”. Basically you get a head for two weeks, it is yours to do as you please with the only condition that you document your experiences, feed it and post it off to the next person when the two weeks are over.

So the box arrives in York, and for the first time I begin to get a sense of what the project is really about. The container itself, the outer protective shell of the head is clearly well travelled. There are many addresses scrawled over the cardboard with a return to: in Chicago and it arrives bearing documents from the Icelandic post office. Global indeed. I decided my contribution should coincide with where my own head is at…

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